# My filebeat registry file has no data "is empty"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389 "2018-07-03T12:42:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![m\_5amy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m_5amy/32/32662_2.png) [@m\_5amy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/m_5amy)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/1 "2018-07-03T12:42:53Z")

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Hi all,

i have a problem with my filebeat , the registry file is empty and still empty so nothing to monitor  
what should i have to do to fix this issue ?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/2 "2018-07-03T14:11:47Z")

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Can you share your filebeat config file, filebeat version and the filebeat logs?

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**Author:** ![m\_5amy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m_5amy/32/32662_2.png) [@m\_5amy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/m_5amy)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/3 "2018-07-03T14:23:43Z")

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@ruflin thanks a lot for your reply , i want to update that all is working fine now but not data visualized displayed into kibana although elasticsearch has indices for logstash , kibana and metricbeat

what should i do or what should i need to check ??

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/4 "2018-07-04T11:23:48Z")

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You write all is fine but you didn't mention a filebeat index?

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**Author:** ![m\_5amy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m_5amy/32/32662_2.png) [@m\_5amy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/m_5amy)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/5 "2018-07-04T11:30:11Z")

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Thanks @ruflin  
i have multiple filebeats "remote filebeats into different machines" how to add a filebeat index ??

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/6 "2018-07-09T08:42:28Z")

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As soon as you start Filebeat on any machine and point it to your cluster, the index should be created automatically.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-filebeat-registry-file-has-no-data-is-empty/138389/7 "2018-08-06T08:42:39Z")

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